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` HALTER.. No. 288,595. Patented Nov.`13, 1888.

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i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY ROREBECK, OF PARMA, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES E. OOATES, OF

` SPENCERPORT, NEW YORK.

y HALTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 288,595, dated November 13, 1883.

` Application nieu May 18,1883. (No model.)

To alZZ whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, HENRY RQREBECK, of Parma, Monroe county, New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Halters, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the halter. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views, showing portions of the rope.

' My improvement relates to ropehhlters having leather head and nose pieces, the body of the halter being made from a single piece of rope formed in a peculiar way, `as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, A shows the leather head or crown-piece, which fits over the head back of the ears, and is provided with a buckle, a, by which it can be taken up or let out.

B is the nose-piece, also made of leather, and consisting of a simple strap, to which the rope is attached, as hereinafter described.

C is the rope which forms the body. of the halter and alsothe stall or hitching end. rIhis rope is arranged as follows: Ihe end b of the rope is sewed or otherwise securely fastened `to one end of the leather nose-piece B. The

rope is then carried up through a loop, d, at one end of the leather head-piece, forming the length 1.l After passing the loop d the rope extends across and through the loop d, at the other end of the headpiece, forming the length 2, which ts under the throat. From the loop d the rope passes down and is attached to the other end of the nose-piece, forming the length 3, which corresponds with length 1. Thence the rope is carried out beyond the end of the nose-piece and turned to form the loop 4. Thence it is carried in and loop 4 and extends outward, forming the stall or hitching end 9. y

Halters have before been made with leather head and nose pieces and with a rope body in a single piece. Such I do not broadly claim.

By the peculiar form of the rope, as above described, the length 2 is brought under the throat and is made self-adjusting thereto, fitting closely, but without undue pressure, being stayed by the two bights 5 and7, and held by the same so as not to choke the horse. It is self-adjusting, by reason of the head-piece sliding freely on the rope, so that the length 2 `will always t closely in place. By this means the horse cannot slip the halter over his head, and no throat-leash is required. By this construction, also, the horse, in tightening the halter by drawing back, simply clamps the nose-piece around his nose, without producing rubbing-friction and wearing the hair off, as is the case where both ends ofthe nosepiece are attached to two branches of a rope that runs through a noose. The device is simple, cheap, and effective.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. A halter consisting of the head-piece A, nose-piece B, and rope C, said rope being in a single piece, consisting of the lengths 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 9, and the loops 4 6, arranged to operate in the manner and-for the purpose specified.

2. In a halter consisting of the head-piece A, nose-piece B, and rope C, the lengths l 2 3 of the rope forming the sides and the throatpiece, and the lengths 5 7 and loop 6, forming stays to the throat-piece, all combined to operate in the manner and for the purpose specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY ROREBECK.

VWitnesses:

E. C. BROWN, JOHN MOHUGH, 

